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Lattice

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Kinjal Shah

Jai Bhavnani

Nick Emmons

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Jill Gunter

Richard Chen

Jordan Momtazi

Balaji Srinivasan

Electric Capital

Felix Feng

Tony Sheng

Scott Keto

6th Man Ventures

Kain Warwick

Layer3

Derek Walkush is Investment Research Partner at Variant, boule at aladdin DAO, writer at OurNetwork. Formerly, Investment Intern at Accolade Partners.

He got interested in crypto in late 2020 around DeFi summer after conducting high level research on blockchain as an analyst in Georgetown’s student-run hedge fund. Looking to learn more about the space, Derek interned at Accolade Partners, which launched one of the first institutional crypto fund of funds. His interest and conviction only seemed to grow; he soon dove into the on-chain world and became a part-time contributor at Index Coop and AladdinDAO; he was recently elected to Aladdin’s research council where he pitches stable farming strategies.

After teaching himself SQL and working as an analyst for a project finance startup, Derek began writing for Spencer’s newsletter, OurNetwork, applying his interest in data querying and fundamentals analysis. Realizing the generational opportunity in front of him, Derek left Georgetown to join the team full-time in June 2022. His primary research interests are on-chain data analytics and token distribution. In his free time, Derek enjoys working out (former D1 rower), 90s movies, cooking, and traveling.

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